Finding the courage to speak up for yourself is scary. I get it. And when someone is mean to us, it catches us off guard. So of course, in the moment, you aren’t likely to respond the way you want. Don’t feel bad about that. Just plan for what you want to say the next time it happens and have a friend or a parent practice this with you.
In order to solve your problem, you have to accept you have a problem to solve. I was stalked. It took me over a year to admit to myself that it was happening. Victims of bullying and of stalking will often deny that it is happening. This isn’t healthy or helpful.
No one wants to deal with a bully. But if you are being bullied, you don’t have a choice. You are being bullied. The question is what are you going …
We know how to get bullies to stop using behavioral science. This is essentially an education problem. If we could teach people these skills then the world we imagine would be created.
